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Frequently Asked Questions

Listed below are frequently asked questions relating to the Life Skills Profile (LSP).

 
Life Skills Profile (LSP)
 
1 Who completes the Life Skills Profile-16?  (Read answer)
 
2 Is the Life Skills Profile-16 a structured interview?  (Read answer)
 
3 What information should be used to make the LSP-16 ratings?  (Read answer)
 
4 What does it mean by ‘rate the consumer’s general functioning over the last three months’?  (Read answer)
 
5 How do I rate a person who is in residential care and is well groomed, wears clean clothes and maintains an adequate diet with the assistance of staff?  (Read answer)
 
6 How do I rate a person who cooperates with health services (item 12) and takes prescribed medication (item 7) but is on a community treatment order?  (Read answer)
 
7 How can the information/results gained from the Life Skills Profile-16 instrument be best utilised clinically?  (Read answer)
 

 

 
 
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Further Reading

National Outcomes and Casemix Collection: Technical Specification of State and Territory Reporting Requirements for the Outcomes and Casemix Components of ‘Agreed Data’ Under National Mental Health Information Development Funding Agreements.
Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing, Canberra, 2002.

National Outcomes and Casemix Collection: Overview of Clinical Measures and Data Items.
Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing, Canberra, 2002.

 
Related Websites

Mental Health and Wellbeing – Commonwealth of Australia
Publications and Resources Relating to the Collection of Outcome Measures Throughout Australia.

Victoria Mental Health Services
Measuring Consumer Outcomes in Public Mental Health Services in Victoria

Ohio Department of Mental Health
Outcomes Planning & Training Tools

HoNOS
Information About the HoNOS Family of Instruments

NSW MH-OAT
New South Wales Mental Health Outcomes & Assessment Training Project

Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire
Details the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire developed by Robert Goodman in the UK.

Youth In Mind
A mental health site for Parents, Teachers and Adolescents.

PSOLIS
Clinicians needing to know more about PSOLIS can link to their website here. Click on the link above.

 
   
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